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Example sentences for "middling size"

  • It is situated near Pigeon creek, a middling size stream in winter, but nearly dry in summer.

  • They are of middling size, but from very hard keep, they do not rise to much weight.

  • Onions are two years coming to perfection; the first year they are sown very thick, and the next they are transplanted, at about eight inches apart, when they grow to a middling size.

  • Set on the fire, and at the first boiling put the bird in; boil gently for about three hours if it is a turkey of middling size, two hours for a middling-sized chicken.

  • It takes about two hours to cook a turkey of middling size.

  • They must be heavy, fresh, and of a middling size.

  • Distant from these ruins about thirty yards stand two Corinthian columns of middling size, one higher than the other.

  • Of the oldest and best looking trees, I counted eleven or twelve; twenty-five very large ones; about fifty of middling size; and more than three hundred smaller and young ones.

  • The people in these canoes were in general of a middling size, and not unlike those of Mangeea; though several were of a blacker cast than any we saw there.

  • The dimensions of one of a middling size, are about thirty feet long, twenty broad, and twelve high.

  • Their eyes are of a middling size, with the white less clear than in us; and though not remarkably quick or piercing, such as give a frank cheerful cast to the whole countenance.

  • This fruit may be kept for several months, if gathered of a middling size at midsummer, and treated in the following manner.

  • When a lady presides, the carving knife should be light, of a middling size, and of a fine edge.

  • Flour them, and put them into boiling water: half an hour will be sufficient for one of middling size.

  • The proper width for grates in rooms of a middling size, will be from six to eight inches, and their length may be diminished more or less according to the difficulty of heating the room, or the severity of the weather.

  • They are commonly of a middling size; some are very small, but equal in goodness and strength, while there are others bigger than the saddle-horses of England.

  • All Arabian horses are of a middling size, very easy in their paces, and rather thin than fat.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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